The Worcester Art Museum, founded in 1898, houses an eclectic collection of over 38,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present and representing cultures from across the world. Highlights of the collection include a collection of Japanese prints, the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, the second largest collection of arms and armor in the Americas, and a rich collection of Roman imperial era floor mosaics, including the largest Roman domestic floor mosaic in North America.
The Roman mosaics and two Greek grave stelae were recovered during excavations at Antioch on the Orontes conducted between 1932 and 1939 by an international team led by American archaeologists and sponsored by Princeton University, the Musées Nationaux de France (Louvre), the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Worcester Art Museum. An inscribed marble ash urn, probably deriving from a columbarium monument from the early imperial cemetery outside the Porta Salaria at Rome, was acquired by purchase in 1915.
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Greek
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MA.Wor.WAM.G.1936.2
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fragmentary mosaic inscription of Dionysos -
MA.Wor.WAM.G.1936.41
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epitaph for Caesianus -
MA.Wor.WAM.G.1936.42
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epitaph for Claudius
Latin
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MA.Wor.WAM.L.1915.75
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epitaph of Nicanor